Becoming a Library Leader: Seven Stages of Leadership Development for Academic Librarians

Shin Freedman is Head of Scholarly Resources & Collections for the Whittemore Library at Framingham State University (FSU) in Massachusetts, where she specializes in scholarly resources and collections. She teaches information literacy and devotes herself to research and evaluation. Prior to FSU, she worked at Brown University Sciences and Medical Libraries. In 2015, she was appointed as a founding member of the Charleston Insights Editorial Board. In 2016, she received a Fulbright U.S. Lecturer Award to China and taught library and information science to Chinese graduate students in the Information Resources Department of the School of Public Affairs at Zhejiang University in Hangzhou, China. In addition, she was invited to give lectures and was a speaker at the Beijing Institute for Science and Technology, Nanjing Normal University, Shanghai Normal University, Southwest University, Nanjing University, Tongji University, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, and Hannam University in Korea. She also teaches professional communication in Beijing, China for FSU. She earned an MBA from Bentley University in Waltham, an MLS from Simmons University Graduate School of Library and Information Science in Boston, and a BA from Catholic University in Taegu, Korea.